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Classic shell is fine but not perfect. Win 7 UI is simply a console gamer UI. Classic menus is by far a more efficient and faster UI than the new one. MS it seems, tried to make an OS that is a Mac OS look alike. Don't get me wrong; Win7 is very stable and fast. It has many features that I like, but! Win 7 UI is so time consuming to use, and so illogical in its structure that I personally use win XP on another computer for all the serious work (3d cad progs etc) and have win 7 for games only.

It is not the developers fault; I am sure that it is the yuppy suits at MS that demanded a Mac style OS and disregarded functionality totally. The poor programmers must have hated their job! All the IT managers and technicians I know hate this new UI. It is console gamer kids who like it simply because they use their PCs only for Facebook, Games, and Utube (nothing wrong with that I do too). Most people who hate the new UI do not post in forums. MS wanted so desperately to disassociate Win7 with the failed Vista that they went the way of the Mac.

I provided a picture of my Windows 7 Start Menu with Programs opened.
Take it or leave it. I don't really care.

Well, I can't be certain from this screenshot, but it looks suspiciously like Classic Shell. The fonts are the same, and the blue gradient for the caption is the same.

Check out the Settings menu. If there is a "Classic Start Menu" at the bottom, with an icon very similar to my user picture here, then it is definitely Classic Shell. Another thing to check is if you have a "Classic Shell" entry in your Programs and Features.

I am not accusing you of joking or trolling, but it is possible you have a 3rd party software installed without realizing it.

I hate the Windows 7 Start Menu, which does not have a Classic mode.
I have finally bit the bullet, and 'installed' -
Classic Windows Start Menu
WHICH IS FREE (and just does the one thing) Core Affinity Resident
It does not 'Install' like you would expect.
It just quietly replaced the Start Menu, with it's own.
Don't panic, as one of the menu items is a Toggle to the original (pretty cool).
It is very configurable, and 'IT IS A KEEPER'

Classic Start Menu, is it available....

Classic Windows Start MenuUm... I know I posted some info here regarding Classic Windows Start Menu - 'CWSM' from CoreAffinity -- http://coreaffinity.megabyet.net/ --- and I detailed my love for it and how it was a perfect all inclusive solution for restoring all past features, combining them with new 7 features - and...

Software

Classic Start Menu: Start Button appears doubledSwitched to the XP-ish Classic Start Menu, plus Adjust for Best Performance, in the usual prescribed way, no third-party interface-modifiers. All looks & works fine except that the Start button itself looks like TWO buttons -- one atop the other and just slightly out of alignment (screenshot here)....

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Classic Start MenuA guy on this web site has found a workaround to get something approximating the classic start menu.
" "Classic" menu option does not exist in Window" Yes it does, but MS denies it!
It's been my one pet hate not to have the classic menu, all fixed by this.
It works exactly as his pictures...

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Classic desktop and Classic start menuClassic desktop and Classic start menu
I was told it was not going to be available with windows 7. As I said it the other thread, that is what I have use since windows 95 and use it for xp currently. I don't know if Vista has it.
I have set where, you can go start button-program-than...

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Classic start menuHello , I try and csmenu Seven Classic Start.Seven Classic Start I love.Csmenu I find that is not as stable as it has bugs.Seven Classic Start applying for a license and unfortunately I was not finding.I would also like to translate the software in French.
Thank you

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Windows 7 & Classic start menu...Do you think Microsoft will give us the Classic Start Menu that has been absent in every beta so far?
I welcome change, no issue's there, but The start menu Classic look seems more solid, and easier to navigate (For me) then the "New Start Menu" that has been implemented since Windows XP.......